Raid that killed U.S. Marshal Christopher Hill in Harrisburg could have been avoided

Police stand outside a residence where a gunman opened fire on law enforcement officers serving an arrest warrant inside earlier Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, in Harrisburg, Pa. Authorities say a deputy U.S. marshal was shot and killed while serving a warrant in Harrisburg. Investigators say gunfire erupted inside a home while Deputy U.S. Marshal Christopher David Hill, 45, was there early Thursday to arrest a woman. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)(Photo: Dan Gleiter, AP)

The deadly raid in Harrisburg last week that ended in the death of a deputy U.S. marshal from York County could have been avoided, according to a report from PennLive.

Deputy Marshal Christopher D. Hill of Conewago Township was fatally shot as he and other members of a fugitive task force were serving a warrant on a woman wanted for pointing a handgun at someone during an argument in front of her house in December.

Another man opened fire on the team. He was shot and killed. York City Police Officer Kyle Pitts was shot and wounded. A Harrisburg police officer who took a bullet in his ballistic vest was not injured.

Members of the Guardian Knights and other motorcycle clubs lined the streets to pay their respects to Christopher Hill, a deputy US Marshal who was killed in the line of duty in Harrisburg Jan. 18.
Jason Plotkin, York Daily Record